Are you a hands-on technical leader ready to shape the future of healthcare digital experiences?
We’re looking for an Application Manager to own and evolve our member and broker-facing portals as well as our mobile platforms in a high-impact, fast-moving healthcare payer environment.
In this role, you’ll combine deep engineering expertise with strategic leadership:
- Lead the design, development, and delivery of enterprise-grade applications using Java, Node.js, React, and OpenShift.
- Drive excellence across the SDLC lifecycle, from architecture and code quality to deployment and support.
- Manage vendors, contracts, and SOWs with precision, ensuring deliverables are met on time and on budget.
- Apply strong management techniques—budgeting, forecasting, and resource allocation—to keep teams aligned and performing at their best.
- Act as a mentor and communicator, inspiring developers, guiding cross-functional stakeholders, and translating technical complexity into clear business outcomes.
- Juggle priorities with confidence in a dynamic payer environment, where speed and compliance are equally critical.
This is more than a management role—it’s an opportunity to set the direction for member and broker digital experiences that directly impact how healthcare is accessed and delivered. If you thrive at the intersection of technology, leadership, and business partnership, we’d love to meet you.
Job Responsibilities
- Monitoring and maintaining adherence and compliance to quality standards on an ongoing basis.
- Overseeing multiple application programming and analysis projects which include development, installation and maintenance of application programs.
- Maximizing staff contribution through professional growth and development, to increase teamwork and more effectively meet business needs.
- Analyzing applications to ensure that all systems that are developed, meeting business needs and specifications.
Job Qualifications
Education
- Bachelor's Degree in a Computer Sciences related field or equivalent work experience
Experience
- 8 years - Extensive systems analysis, design and project management experience required.
- 3 years - Management and/or leadership experience required
Skills\Certifications
- Proven technical background with a history of relational database and data warehousing technologies.
- Ability to design and develop using service oriented architecture and object oriented architecture design patterns
- Proven skill with information technology in use at BCBST is required
- Ability to conceive and deliver innovative solutions
- Proven analytical and problem solving skills and ability to perform non-routine analytical tasks
- Strong interpersonal and organizational skills
- Ability to establish and maintain a high level of customer trust and confidence
- Must be able to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical co-workers
- Demonstrated competency in strategic thinking, with strong abilities in relationship management
- Demonstrated ability to work with vendors, including discussions for contracts, price negotiation, and budgeting
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Number of Openings Available:
1
Worker Type:
Employee
Company:
BCBST BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, Inc.
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